Fairview Avenue Whetstone, Blaby

22 addresses across 1 postcode (LE8), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2800352.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £265,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 3, D: 4, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Blaby costs £2,490 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Narborough, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Oliver Park, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 68 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hazelmere Medical Centre, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 46 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£265,000£265,000£265,000
20233£250,500£218,000£330,000
20211£266,000£266,000£266,000
20192£182,000£175,000£189,000
20181£185,000£185,000£185,000
20171£210,000£210,000£210,000
20162£203,975£188,000£219,950
20151£130,000£130,000£130,000
20142£124,225£123,500£124,950
20132£138,500£136,000£141,000
20121£132,000£132,000£132,000
20107£125,800£50,000£175,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Aug 202422 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£265,000
14 Dec 20232 LE8 6JQDetached£330,000
31 Mar 20239 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£218,000
6 Feb 202317 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£250,500
30 Sep 202125 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£199,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Mar 20215 LE8 6JQDetached£266,000
18 Dec 201925 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£175,000
17 Dec 20196 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£189,000
13 Apr 20184 LE8 6JQTerraced£185,000
29 Mar 201823 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£158,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Nov 201728 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£210,000
17 Jun 201622 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£188,000
13 May 20165 LE8 6JQDetached£219,950
19 Aug 20155 LE8 6JQDetached£130,000
23 May 201413 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£124,950
21 Mar 201425 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£123,500
14 Nov 20134 LE8 6JQTerraced£136,000New build.
18 Jan 20138 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£141,000New build.
8 Oct 20126 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£132,000New build.
22 Dec 20109 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£123,000
3 Dec 201028 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£175,000
5 Nov 201024 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£152,000
18 Jun 201025 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£124,950
17 Jun 201022 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£145,000
28 May 201013 LE8 6JQTerraced£125,800
5 Mar 201028 LE8 6JQDetached£50,000New build.
23 Dec 200825 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£145,000
18 Jul 200825 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£127,000
2 May 200817 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£136,000
7 Dec 200724 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£160,000
8 Jun 200723 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£150,000
18 May 200715 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£159,950
15 Dec 20051 LE8 6JQDetached£158,000
24 Mar 200524 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£147,000
22 Aug 200315 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£105,000
1 Nov 200215 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£94,500
30 Aug 200223 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£88,000
10 Jun 200222 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£89,950
7 Jun 200213 LE8 6JQTerraced£79,500
15 Feb 20023 LE8 6JQDetached£82,750
10 Nov 200017 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£58,000
3 Dec 19999 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£54,200
24 Apr 19981 LE8 6JQDetached£63,000
24 Apr 199823 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£54,000
18 Dec 199726 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£59,950
31 Oct 19965 LE8 6JQDetached£30,000
22 Aug 19963 LE8 6JQDetached£42,000
12 Dec 199524 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£43,750
21 Nov 199517 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£41,500
23 Jun 19959 LE8 6JQSemi-detached£40,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, detached (2); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2012 (3); 1930-1949 (2); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaby in 2026-27: Band D £2,490 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,660£1,937£2,214£2,490£3,044£3,597£4,150£4,980

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (43% of about 740 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 68 m and 71 m above sea level (70 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LE8 6JQ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsNarborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Leicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wale Road Whetstone130 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester8 km (5 miles)
Car parksEnderby Park and Ride2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA30.5 km (19 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hazelmere Medical Centre1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whetstone Chemist160 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whetstone Dental Surgery550 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLeicester Royal Infirmary6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police Federation640 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whetstone News + Off Licence, Whetstone Cashzone160 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenOliver Park 2.0 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²260 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha230 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,480 m²290 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade I), 240 m north-east. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade I240 m north-east
Enderby Mill BridgeScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Site of St John's Church, AldebyScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Black SpinneyWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Johnstone SpinneyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Ash SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Aylestone HoltWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Froane's HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) north-west
Mill StreamLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 552122

1 of the street's 22 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Blaby: see them on the Blaby page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Peter's Church of England Primary School WhetstonePrimary5–11290 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Blaby Stokes Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Badgerbrook Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Greystoke Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Cosby Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Glen Hills Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Whetstone Chemist LE8 6LPRetailers - other150 mExempt
Whetstone Village Store LE8 6LPRetailers - other150 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Sep 2025
United Reformed Church LE8 6LPOther catering premises160 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Little Badgers Playgroup LE8 6BAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good26 Sep 2019
Whetstone Lunch Club LE8 6BARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
Whetstone News LE8 6LPRetailers - other200 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Mar 2026
Daisy Chain Childrens Nursery LE8 6LQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good12 May 2025
The Bulls Head LE8 6JXPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good12 Jul 2024
Oriental Kitchen LE8 6JYTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good18 Jun 2025
Whetstone Fish Bar LE8 6JYTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Blaby & Whetstone Social And Youth Club LE8 6LWOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Mar 2025
The Boyzee's Cafe LE8 6LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Chataway Residential Home LE8 6JGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Sep 2024

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

46 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order6
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Street (18); On or near Spire Close (8); On or near Elizabeth Gardens (6); On or near Cemetery Road (6); On or near Spinney Halt (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 337 residents in 168 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3840
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Greenfields · Spinney Halt · Garratt Square · Elizabeth Gardens · The Sidings · High Street · Avon Drive · Church Lane · Pullen Court · Spire Close · King Street · Cemetery Road

All the streets in LE8 and across Blaby.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.